In my opinion, they needed one more year at Baraka to make it stick.

They were in really small classes and had attention slathered on them. And they got a chance to be kids again in a place where there were no drugs or abuse.

All of a sudden they were the ones who had more. They realized that they have a lot of things, even material things, while the Kenyans around us really lived in poverty.

I felt it was a privilege to be working with that population of kids, African Americans from the inner city. I got really attached to all of those kids and I'm still in touch with some of them. Now I see firsthand some of the disadvantages they face. It's very real. They need extra support. The forces these kids are up against are too much for them.